World's leading digital design event from the makers of HyperWorks & solidThinking

October 16 — 18, 2018 | Paris, France

The 2018 Global Altair Technology Conference represents the 10th time the conference has been held in Europe, bringing together companies from around the world that have benefited significantly by integrating the latest simulation, digital design, IoT and cloud computing technologies into their product development processes.

Through thought-provoking keynote speakers, cutting edge technical case studies and educational workshops, the ATC will reveal how companies are achieving business goals and delivering world class products in shortened timescales. Last held in 2017, over 700 engineering professionals attended and actively turned the conference into one of the World's premier digital design events. We hope that you can join us this October in Paris.

9 Previous ATCs in Europe

1000

Participants

17

Keynote Presenters

100

Presentations

2

Workshops

27

Exhibitors

Keynotes

Company Vision

Altair

James ScapaCEO

Early Learning Stages of the Newly Borne Twins: Autonomous Drone for the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE

SMD

Chris WilkinsonCTO

Zaha Hadid

Eddie CanAssociate & Project Director

More to be announced soon

TECHNICAL SPEAKERS

Thermal and Impact Analysis of a Nuclear Flask Design

Assystem Energy and Infrastructure

Thomas Goulding

SPH simulation of an oil cooled electrical machine

BMW Group

Nicolas Brossardt

Developing the Lightweight Structure of the World's Most Efficient electric VTOL Aircraft by Simulation Driven Design

University of Dresden

Model validation of a seat using building block approach

Zodiac Seats

ASML

Fred HuizingaGroup leader DE Mechanical Analysis

More to be announced soon

Thoughts from past attendees

"I think the conference by far exceeded my expectations. It was one of the best events I have attended in a long time. The quality of the event, the flawless organization and outstanding supporting staff made the event extremely enjoyable."

Julien Chaussee, Team Rafale ETS

AGENDA

October 16 — Workshops

1pm — 6pm

6pm Welcome Reception at the Palais des Congrès

Lead Time Reduction

Advanced Methods in Modeling and Visualization in CAE

Design for 3D Printing

New Developments in Technology and Process for Design for Additive Manufacturing

IoT and Digital Twin

Digital Twin, Predictive Maintenance and In-service Simulation

Fatigue and Durability

Extending the Life of Products with Simulation

e-Mobility and Design for Electric Vehicles

Challenges and opportunities in design of structures and powertrain for electric vehicles

Applied Fluid Dynamics, Thermal Management and e-Drive Oiling

Concept Design

Applications of modern concept design simulation

Watch previous ATC keynote presentations

When Simulation Turns into Reality

Airbus

Dominique MoreauAirframe Technical Authority

Airbus

Dominique MoreauAirframe Technical Authority

When Simulation Turns into Reality

Our last aircraft development, the A350 XWB, took benefit of complex advanced numerical simulations. The presentation will present the today's state of the art in terms of numerical simulation and the very latest progress Airbus did on the topic. The presentation will go through what remains to develop in the future so to make numerica simulation much more effective in the design process of an aircraft in order to:

Airbus Helicopter

Airbus Helicopter

In the context of Industry 4.0, most enterprise processes must become more digitized. A key element will be the evolution of the traditional product development toward a connected and highly efficient ecosystem, where humans, machines and resources communicate with each other and work collaboratively.

The weight and balance process today is a series of discrete and fragmentary steps taken by different actors: designers, weight engineers, structural engineers, suppliers, program management and executives, manufacturing. Digitization brings down walls, and the product life cycle becomes a completely integrated ecosystem that is fully transparent to all the players involved.

Weight Analytics solution provides high data consistency and transparency, standardization and automation of workflows, a powerful BI tool to support analysis and decisions making, which have a tremendous impact on process and product quality.

Artemis Racing

ARTEMIS RACING

Three-time Olympic medallist and Artemis Racing Team Manager and Tactician Iain Percy will discuss the impact of technology on transforming the America's Cup competition from boats that move through the water to vessels that fly above it.

As seen in Altair's documentary Surface to Air, the application of simulation and optimization was key to this change. The world speed record for sailing was below 27 knots in 1972, and did not break the 50 knot barrier until it was achieved on a kiteboard in 2008. Today's America's Cup boats are routinely hitting speeds on tight race courses that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

The increase in velocity enabled by advanced structural composites and on-board control systems has been a true game changer, and the future of sailing will be increasingly dependent on simulation driven design.

Altair on behalf of NEVS

ALTAIR ON BEHALF OF NEVS

The automotive industry is experiencing ever increasing requirements on new vehicles from all directions, e.g. legislation, consumers and the competitive situation on the market. Still, development cycles must be shortened and development costs reduced. Early concept development is a project stage where change costs are low and design freedom large. Thus, improvement of early concept development to mature designs faster and with better design balance must be a key goal of vehicle development.

NEVS is developing a new series of pure electric drive vehicles which should cover a wide range of sizes and customer profiles. The development will cover vehicles ranging from B-segment, through D-segment to E-segment vehicles including derivates. Still, the new vehicle program has to be developed in a lean fashion with a maximum of carry-over content and a minimum of local variant specific solutions. The pure electric drive strategy removes certain contains in traditional multi-driveline developments and opens new opportunities to improve the balance between weight, attribute performance and carry-over content. In order to utilize the design freedom optimally, to optimize the architectural commonalities between platform and to use carry-over content efficiently, NEVS is working with Altair and the so-called C123 concept development support process to support concept development.

The Altair C123 process has been developed to provide concept design with fast and continuous flow of trade-off and decision information using optimization to support the early design process. This presentation will introduce C123 in general, it will discuss the challenges and possibilities of multi-vehicle and multi-platform E-vehicle development and it will show examples how challenges are addressed within the vehicle development project at NEVS.

Speaker

The Secret life of Models

Schneider Electric

Gael SallesDirector Computer Aided Product Engineering Technology

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

Gael SallesDirector Computer Aided Product Engineering Technology

The Secret life of Models

In the context of a rapidly changing landscape in the Energy domain, the development or upgrade of an offer that can sustain new requirements is challenged by factors such as the increase in the complexity of use cases, inter-discipline dependencies, and the emergence of different asset management approaches.

Although the core business is rarely changed drastically, the offer proposition to the end customer represents a paradigm shift. Many legacy aspects of offers will become commodities while all functionalities that are related to sustainability will gain in importance. To support these changes, Engineering Disciplines must combine continuous improvement of their core competencies with an extension of scope.

After a brief introduction of the changes in the Energy Landscape, an analysis of the life of models will be presented from the viewpoint of system engineering. Along with the paradigm shift in the use of models, the power of the multidisciplinary use of models will be approached such as for Design Space Exploration, Verification-Validation for cyber-Physical offer or maintenance purposes.

One of the key success factors of this silent but strong evolution is the correct usage of models. This change in how models are used can be quite subtle. It is all about the secret life of models.

To the Moon with AM — Optimization, Space and Everything in Between

Israel Aerospace Industry

Yoram MalkaHead Mechanical Engineering Department

ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

Yoram MalkaHead Mechanical Engineering Department

To the moon with AM – optimization, space and everything in between

Increasing the performance of a system is a constant challenge engineers in all application areas face. This challenge specifically important in the aerospace world where weight reduction is one of the key factors defining the success of a project.

Israeli AirSpace Industry (IAI) is facing such a challenge in the development of a satellite planned to carry out a moon exploration mission. To achieve an optimal performance new numerical and manufacturing tools very adopted in the project. Optimization and analysis tools from Altair Engineering open a whole new range of lightweight, robust a deficient design concepts along with an accurate and advanced capability of structural analysis.

Manufacturing of these innovative designs is possible thanks to the capabilities of ALM. However, the novice process of ALM manufactured parts for aerospace application hold a challenge of validating the reliability and repeatability of the manufacturing process itself.

In this work, I will share some of the challenges that we at IAI is facing in the implementation of the optimization and ALM technologies in our design process, to do so I will show two study cases presenting the design process, the setting for the manufacturing process and the way we qualified the final part.

Vehicle Concept and Structure of the New Opel Ampera-e

Opel Ampera-e

Henning HolzmannDirector GME Vehicle CAE

Opel Ampera-e

Henning HolzmannDirector GME Vehicle CAE

Vehicle Concept and Structure of the new Opel Ampera-e

The new Opel Ampera-e is a milestone towards the future of electric mobility - a vehicle suitable for daily usage with a range of up to 500km at a reasonable price. The car offers fun to drive, space for 5 passengers and a fast re-charging capability.

One of the biggest challenges during the vehicle development was the integration of the RESS (Rechargeable Energy Storage System) with 60kWh capacity into the car - the large battery pack with the surrounding electrical components needed to be packaged into the vehicle, attached to the body structure and protected during crash events in an efficient way. Another difficult task was to bring the overall vehicle mass down as much as possible - this was enabled by consequent application of CAE including design and gage optimization as well as intelligent use of high strength steels and aluminum.

Speaker

Registration

Super Early Bird Price

March - May

€390

Early Bird Price

June - July

€490

Standard Price

August-October

€690

The 2018 Global Altair Technology Conference is a paid for event. Speakers, students, professors and sponsors can register for free. If you have any questions about the pricing for the ATC or registration in general, please contact eatc@altair.com or your Account Manager.

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2018 SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS

Matereality Software & Infrastructure for Materials

Materials information is an aspect of product data that must be accessible by engineering teams at many phases of the product lifecycle. Every aspect of this complex and highly varied data can now be carefully organized in libraries and supported by analytical tools and software modules to aid materials engineers, CAE engineers, test labs and designers in their daily tasks. When deployed across the enterprise, the Matereality software brings harmony, efficiency and control while minimizing risk. Matereality Workgroup Material DatabasePro is available through the Altair Partner Alliance.

Matereality is an affiliate of DatapointLabs Technical Center for Materials, which provides accurate material testing, material parameter conversion, and model validation services for CAE, allowing companies to populate their databases with high-quality, application-ready data for design and new product development. Together, the companies provide a comprehensive resource to strengthen the materials knowledge core of manufacturing enterprises.

MFRC passionately contributes to the metal forming community by developing AFDEX, a metal forming simulation software. AFDEX can be the best fit for design and verification of your forging process with its outstanding analytical capabilities. With more than two decades of experience in metal forming simulation, we support our customers in various ways which include webinars, presentations and knowledge transfer from annual conferences on metal forming CAE technologies. The strong points of AFDEX are intelligent re-meshing technology, user friendliness and solution accuracy. We believe that this facilitates a wide application spectrum in metal forming ranging from structural analysis of dies, coupled analysis to other conventional and advanced manufacturing processes.

At NovaCast, we like to share our expertise to help optimizing casting processes. Our reality-based casting simulation, NovaFlow&Solid, predicts the flow and solidification, calculates feeders, as well as checks for hot spots, stresses and shrinkages for gravity and high pressure die casting. Our team is devoted to innovate and inspire the foundry industry to be smarter, more efficient at the same time as they reduce their environmental footprint.

PART Engineering provides CAE software and services in the scope of FEA. PART is located in Germany with more than 400 customers throughout the world in various industries. The company's mission is to enable its customers to gain more value from their FE simulations and to make their CAE processes more efficient. From years of experience in CAE, PART has developed software products, such as Converse and S-Life to meet the needs of CAE engineers - creating reliable results by using simple and robust applications.

PDTec AG specializes in CAE integration and simulation data management (SDM) which helps customers capture their simulation processes along the product lifecycle and streamline all associated digital information flows. To bring customers closer to their objectives, PDTec develop solutions for integration and enterprise collaborative engineering to support the complete CAE process chain and link their comprehensive tool landscape. They support structured, corporate-wide data management of any CAE data for all disciplines, track the data and facilitates engineering collaboration globally. PDTec provides the standard software SimData Manager, the integration services along the deployment and the support for ongoing success.